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Rabbit, Run

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Inspired by Radioactive rabbit trapped at nuclear reservation (WashintgonPost.com 11/05/10 2:04 p.m.), and of course the novel that inspired our title.

“A radioactive rabbit was trapped on the Hanford nuclear reservation, and Washington state health workers have been searching for contaminated rabbit droppings. The regional director of the Office of Radiation Protection, Earl Fordham, said Thursday that no contaminated droppings have been found in areas accessible to the public. The Tri-City Herald reports that officials suspect the rabbit sipped some water left from the recent demolition of a Cold War-era building used in the production of nuclear weapons. The rabbit was trapped in the past week and was highly contaminated with radioactive cesium. It was killed and disposed of as radioactive waste.” – Washington Post


Modern nuclear power is completely risk-free,

Although that rabbit might disagree.

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Here’s video of the disposal team, wearing special radiation suits, approaching the rabbit.

Just kidding. That was, in case you hadn’t guessed, the famous killer rabbit scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (click here for the rest of our Monty Python series, or other earlier runaway rabbit related post).

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